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Zurich and Mondelez Reach NotPetya Settlement, but Cyber-Risk May Increase
PRIVACY PRIVACY The parties have mutually resolved the matter, but details of the settlement were not provided Read More
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Hacker Charged With Extorting Online Psychotherapy Service
PRIVACY PRIVACY A 25-year-old Finnish man has been charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy company and its patients. Finnish authorities rarely name suspects in an investigation, but they were willing to make an exception for Julius “Zeekill” Kivimaki, a notorious hacker who — at the tender age of 17 — had…
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Espionage campaign loads VPN spyware on Android devices via social media
PRIVACY PRIVACY A new espionage campaign, dubbed SandStrike, has been detected using malicious VPN apps to load spyware on Android devices, cybersecurity company Kaspersky reports. It’s an example of how APT (advanced persistent threat) actors are constantly updating old attack tools and creating new ones to launch new malicious campaigns, particularly against mobile devices. “In…
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Bot Warning for Retailers Ahead of Busy Shopping Season
PRIVACY PRIVACY Automated threats accounted for 62% of attacks last year Read More
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White House ransomware summit highlights need for borderless solutions
PRIVACY PRIVACY The US White House this week convened its Second International Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit (CRI), bringing together leaders from 36 countries and the European Union in person to build on the work of its first ransomware summit in 2021. At a press briefing before the Summit, a White House spokesperson said, “While the…
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UK Security Agency to Scan the Country for Bugs
PRIVACY PRIVACY NCSC wants to determine “the vulnerability of the UK” Read More
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Minimizing security concerns of ESOPs
PRIVACY PRIVACY The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. Retirement plans are an easily overlooked but often critical cybersecurity concern. Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), while less common than…
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How much of your personal info is available online? A simple search could show you plenty.
PRIVACY PRIVACY What you paid for your home, who lives there with you, your age, your children, your driving record, education, occupation, estimated income, purchasing habits, and any political affiliations you may have—all pretty personal information, right? Well, there’s a good chance that anyone can find it online. All it takes is your name and…
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Threat Actor “OPERA1ER” Steals Millions from Banks and Telcos
PRIVACY PRIVACY More than 30 organizations compromised by off-the-shelf tools Read More
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Making the case for security operation automation
PRIVACY PRIVACY According to ESG research, 52% of organizations believe that security operations are more difficult today than they were two years ago, due to factors such as the dangerous threat landscape, growing attack surface, and the volume/complexity of security alerts. In analyzing this data, I see a common theme: scale. Security teams must be…